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In 1946 Wilfred Le Gros Clark invited Brenner to his Department of Anatomy in Oxford, during a visit to South Africa. Brenner was persuaded to finish his medical education instead. Brenner returned to medical school where he failed Medicine, nearly failed Surgery and achieved a First Class in Obstetrics and Gynecology.
Sydney Brenner interviewed by Alan Macfarlane 23rd August 2007. 0:09:07 Born in Germiston near Johannesburg 13th January 1927; father emigrated from Lithuania to South Africa where he had a brother in about 1911; mother came from Latvia and she emigrated in 1922 and had lived through the revolution; father repaired shoes and we lived initially in rooms at the back of his shop; mother has ...
Sep 1, 2019 · PAUSING to look at the life of Sydney Brenner (1927-2019) I was saddened by the passing of Sydney Brenner on April 5, 2019, Below is the finest tribute I read on his life followed by the best interview I ever seen done of him by Alan Macfarlane.
Interviewed by Alan Macfarlane on 23rd August 2007 in his home near Cambridge. Lasts about one hour forty minutes, in two parts.
Sydney Brenner, whose interview is below, was one of the most active members and I would listen to him with amazement quite frequently. Brenner shared the Nobel Prize in 2003 with John Sulston, who directed the team which first sequenced the whole of the human genome, and whose interview is also below.
Interview with Sydney Brenner the Nobel Prize winning molecular biologist who worked with Francis Crick and others. For the full, higher quality interview (a...
Sydney Brenner was born in 1927 in South africa, where he attended medical school. he obtained his DPhil from Oxford University, UK, and spent most of his professional career at the
